Jobs / Management and business operations / 11-3031.01
Treasurers and Controllers
Direct financial activities, such as planning, procurement, and investments for all or part of an organization.
- US jobs
- 841,710 (SOC 11-3031 group, "Financial Managers")
- Median wage
- $166,570 a year
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of treasurers and controllers?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Management and business operations:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. On TheAgentCompany, which gives agents workplace tasks inside a simulated software company, the best agent resolves 42.9% of tasks (a November 2025 result). No task-level benchmark in our collection maps directly to management or business operations.
- Project levelPartialMixed. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, and the best agent passes 73.5% of APEX-Agents tasks on the first try. Running a business is weaker: on Vending-Bench 2 the best model ends a simulated year with $15,515, about a quarter of Andon Labs' estimate for a good strategy.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Monitor financial activities and details, such as cash flow and reserve levels, to ensure that all legal and regulatory requirements are met.
- Evaluate needs for procurement of funds and investment of surpluses and make appropriate recommendations.
- Develop and maintain relationships with banking, insurance, and external accounting personnel to facilitate financial activities.
- Delegate authority for the receipt, disbursement, banking, protection, and custody of funds, securities, and financial instruments.
- Receive, record, and authorize requests for disbursements in accordance with company policies and procedures.
- Advise management on short-term and long-term financial objectives, policies, and actions.
- Coordinate and direct the financial planning, budgeting, procurement, or investment activities of all or part of an organization.
- Prepare or direct preparation of financial statements, business activity reports, financial position forecasts, annual budgets, or reports required by regulatory agencies.
- Develop internal control policies, guidelines, and procedures for activities, such as budget administration, cash and credit management, and accounting.
- Receive cash and checks and make deposits.
- Analyze the financial details of past, present, and expected operations to identify development opportunities and areas where improvement is needed.
- Maintain current knowledge of organizational policies and procedures, federal and state policies and directives, and current accounting standards.
Other job titles for this occupation (24)
Comptroller · Controller · Corporate Controller · Corporate Treasurer · Finance Treasurer · Global Treasurer · Regional Controller · School Treasurer · Treasurer · Treasurer Consultant · City Comptroller · City Controller · City Treasurer · Cost Controller · County Treasurer · Financial Controller · Financial Institution Treasurer · Financier · Fiscal Specialist · Plant Controller · Production Controller · Project Controller · State Comptroller · Trust Officer